Rising Lords
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 17.9h
- Value
- $1.12/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($8.99)
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Dedicated Graphics Card with min. 2GB shared RAM, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 6 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) and Gladiator Guild Manager ($14.99, scores 54) both outscore it.
10 of the 570 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 180 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
38% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:52 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The bugs in this game make it crash constantly. For the very basic graphics it uses, it seems to overly tax my gaming laptop's resources. The DLC has so many bugs I couldn't list them all in the space provided. The DLC is unplayable until the bugs are fixed.
I regret buying this years ago. Its even buggier now. After some time, you can select units any more etc. I already had this bug (different PC) before, its not fixed yet. But hey, there is a big banner that they wasted tax money on this...nice
probably one of the best games to play when all your friends are playing another game without you and the ones who want to play games with you are on vacation... I probably need new friends...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Rising Lords scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/835650/rising-lordsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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